The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word LOP which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2022.
Sever crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LOP | 28 % | 3 |
| REND | 17 % | 4 |
| CUT | 17 % | 3 |
| HEW | 8 % | 3 |
| CLEAVE | 6 % | 6 |
| SLIT | 6 % | 4 |
| RIVE | 6 % | 4 |
| DIVIDE | 3 % | 6 |
| DETACH | 3 % | 6 |
| SLICEOFF | 3 % | 8 |
| DISASSOCIATE | 3 % | 12 |
| DISUNITE | 3 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sever
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- break up
- lop
- detach
- decouple
- disband
- unbundling
- remove
- dissolve
- disconnect
- separation
- disassociate
- dissociate
Crossword Answer definitions
LOP noun- That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
- A flea.
- (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result LOP
- Cut off
- Remove some branches
- Trim
- Remove, as branches
- Be a branch manager?
- Chop (off)
- Cut (off)
- Cut (off), as branches
- Do some landscaping work, say
- Do some topiary
More clues leading to the result REND
More clues leading to the result CUT
- Kick off the team
- "This take is garbage"
- Song, as it were
- Sporting a six-pack, say
- Director's cry
- Share
- "Stop shooting!"
- Edit menu word
- Movie release
- Slice
More clues leading to the result HEW
- Take an ax to
- Axe a tree
- Fell
- Onetime Cabinet dept.
- Shape with an axe
- Cut off
- Cut with an axe
- Fell by chopping
- Chop down
- Chop off
More clues leading to the result CLEAVE
- Hack off
- Split
- Word that can be its own opposite
- Chop in two
- Stick
- Sever
- Word that can mean "attach" or "separate"
- Stick or split
- Remain faithful (to), or split
- Stick (to)
More clues leading to the result SLIT
More clues leading to the result RIVE
- Fracture
- Tear apart
- Break into pieces
- Split asunder
- Split or tear
- Cleave
- Split
- Tear
- Bank of France
- Bank of France?
More clues leading to the result DIVIDE
- Split
- Prepare to share
- Do arithmetic
- Cut into parts
- Split up
- Put apart
- Split into portions
- Part
- Watershed.
- The Great ___.
More clues leading to the result DETACH
- Take apart
- Rip off
- Take off
- Break off
- Disengage
- Disconnect, as a notepad page
- Separate
- Become separated
- Remove, as a coupon
- Unfasten